 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm walking up that long slope to Denham station. This is Denham in Buckinshire, over there's a short main line. All we're doing today, as per the video's title, the Dangerous Bridges Gone, a couple of years ago I made a video here in Denham called Dangerous Bridges and Floods. If you want to see that, have a look at the link on the screen now, and what we did, we went and looked at some dangerous bridges, bridges that you either couldn't get across or you could, but it was a little bit dangerous to get across. Anyway, one of them, you can see, or you could see, from the Chilten main line when you've caught a train into London. And I noticed the other day, it appeared that the bridge had gone. Now, it's not anything to do with HS2, as per the reason the bridge has gone. HS2 does run quite close to here, but that's not actually none of the workings I'm expecting to feature in today's video. It's about half a mile over that way, the construction work for HS2. Anyway, so what we're going to do, we're going to go and have a look and just see what's happened, where that Dangerous Bridge used to be. And see if there's any sign of a new bridge being built in its place, because it'd be a bit of a shame if there isn't, because it was a really nice footpath when it wasn't flooded. Anyway, this is Denham Station. Always liked Denham Station. Used to come here when I was a child with my grandparents to watch trains. It looked a little bit different then, because I didn't have a footbridge on the platform in the middle. There was a bit like a mirror image of this on the other side. The most exciting thing I'll find about Denham Station, if you're not watching trains, is this side of the bridge underpass. It's the only station I know that has something like this. Obviously many stations have an underpass, but not quite like this one. If you didn't see my Dangerous Bridges and Flocks video, then you won't have seen this before. So I come down here and you emerge into this huge tunnel-like under the railway. So what they've done, and obviously wasn't existing right away, and then the station underpass kind of comes down to here, continues, and we'll see. That was where you went up to the other side. But it also accesses the path to houses that way, and then Denham Village that way. So that's where you used to go up to their platform. So it's a shame really they did demolish it, but I think now it's subsided. So that's why. Anyway, here we are, out the back of that huge arch under Denham Station. As I say, I think that is the only station I know anywhere that is quite like that. If you do not have another one, do comment and tell me, but I cannot think of one of all the railway stations I've been to. Anyway, so we get to here. Now, this is called the Pike Hill, this path. As I mentioned, it runs down to Denham Village, which is a very attractive village. I'm not going to go down there today. If you want to see my exploration of Denham Village, then do have a look at the link on screen. Now you'll be able to see what's down there. I can just hear a train. Anyway, that is the Pike Hill. If you look through the trees, you just see the class 1, 2, 5 and so on. Now, there's various footpaths here. When we last came along here, this one said closed. We went down there anyway and found the broken bridge, but you could just about still get across it. To say there's nothing to say, it's closed. So that's already interesting and intriguing. Anyway, I'm going to walk about a quarter of a mile down there and we're going to go and see what we can find. There we are. We are about a quarter of a mile down that path from where I was a moment ago. You can see there's one of the viaducts over the river Colm on the Chiltern Mainline. That way is going towards London. It's nice down here this time here, because with all the leaves off the trees, you can sort of see everything, which obviously in the summer it's basically green time. Not so easy to see with the parapet of the viaduct, but anyway, that was a Chiltern Rise class 168 heading north. I can see the river ahead of us. I don't remember this fence being here last time. I think this might be new, because over there that is Denham Golf Course, which you can walk across. That's not the Denham Golf Course that has the railway station named after it, Denham Golf Club. There's two golf courses in Denham. This one's in the village. This fence definitely wasn't here, and it looks like the fence is taking us as close to the river as we possibly can get. The river water looks very high, so probably the path we went down underwater is going to be underwater. The bridge was across there, and it was kind of broken in the middle, but you could still get across it. They're taking some slats out to try and stop you going across it, but people like me just managed to get across it anyway. So let's just have a look so we can see any evidence. I wonder if they've gone to all this effort to put this fence here, and this looks like a fairly well-walked path. Maybe there's a new footpath, which I don't know about. We'll soon find out anyway. I remember this is like a little sort of gully coming off, and that's again quite full with water. Probably in the summer that would be dried up, and then, again, dried up. I'm going to just follow it now and see what happens. So most of the area over there is Denham Country Park. Going back to HS2, well, HS2 isn't a run for Denham Country Park. They have been, basically, built a temporary road through the Country Park to take some of the material. And there's another viaduct similar to this one, which takes the railway over the Grand Union Canal and into Great London. That is where they take the HS2's construction machinery under the railway. This is interesting. Look, a public bridleway sign, and this is where the bridge was. It has completely disappeared. It's gone. We're not getting across the river today. Strangely, the fence ends here, and the path appears to be well walked on. So, you see in the lockdown, people did just go and walk around the golf courses, because golfers couldn't play golf. They effectively became unofficial public parks, and it was quite exciting. I walked around this one and one or two others, just somewhere different to walk. So, if anyone watching is local from Denham, I mean, I'm fairly local, but I don't actually live in Denham. If anyone knows what the plan is, we're going to get a bridge back. Because that walk on here, like I mentioned, takes you down to the Grand Union Canal, is a really nice walk. This time of year, it can be a bit underwater, so it's not really a walk you can go and do any day, but it was a very nice walk. So, until last time, as I said, if you look in the other video, I then picked myself a big stick, and I had wellies on. Today, just in case I had to do any wading, but I don't think I will. And I was wading through the water with stick, kind of feeling each hole, and it was only on the very last bit. I got to where I could see dry land. I stepped and I went right down like that and got a bit wet. It's this side. That's Oxford Rovers private fishing, so that's that way, so we won't go down there. So, yeah, it's a bit of a dead end, unless I go down there, which I'm a bit unsure to. Is that another train coming? No, it's a helicopter, I can hear. I was thinking, if there were no trees along there, that'd be quite a good view of the railway line from there. That's how I knew from the railway that this bridge was missing. That's why I wanted to come down here to investigate. Anyway, what I think I'm going to do is go down there to see where it goes. If I see anyone from the gulf, or something I'm told to go back, I will. Or, I don't know, I'm going to go up here to see what I can find. I've walked a little way down what appears to be a well trodden path here, a train. I don't think I'm going to get anywhere though, because look, we come to another body of water here. Someone's throwing a chest of drawers in the river. And with the river culling over there, I can't think there's going to be another way out. Or maybe actually that body of water, maybe that's just a pond. Yeah, it looks like I could go out there, but I'll be in the gulf of course. So I think what I'm going to do, I am just going to go back the way I came. But as soon as we're here, and it seems people have walked from here, let's just go and have a look, because I can see the river again. So we'll end the video down there. So yeah, it's been a bit of an anti-climax. I was sort of hoping to find out something a bit more interesting, or at least find some information as to what happened to the bridge. But we didn't. So again, the bridge would have been there. I mean, I fully understand why they took it away. It was broken, so it needed to be taken away. And maybe there are plans to replace it. Oh, there's a train crossing. So maybe there are plans to replace it. So, you know, maybe we will get to that walk again, but I'm a bit puzzled as to what's going on. Let's just go. Yeah, we're coming to a bit of a dead end of the path. There's a bit of a path going down there, but I said there's another bit of water. So I don't think I'm going to get anywhere by going that way. So thank you for watching. Hope you enjoyed this video. And like I say, if you know anything, if you know about the plan sort of bridge that's going to happen, then please do comment and tell me other than that. Thank you very much. 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